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Ten Books, One Big Popcorn Bowl: My Oscar-Season February Reads
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I read this book before I started my Oscar winning books marathon. Lots to absorb here. Addie makes a deal with a dark god for freedom: she’ll live forever, but everyone she meets will forget her the moment she’s out of sight. So begins three centuri...
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
This one was another pre-Oscar read. Imagine a whole town knowing a murder is about to happen…and watching it happen anyway. This slim novel reconstructs the killing of Santiago Nasar, who’s accused—rightly or wrongly—of taking a bride’s virginity an...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
This is narrative nonfiction that reads like a tragic, brilliant, very human epic. Sylvia Nasar traces the life of mathematician John Nash—from an odd, fiercely gifted boy in West Virginia, to Princeton prodigy, to “kid professor” at MIT whose bravad...
A Beautiful Mind
If you’ve ever wondered what the days before disaster feel like, this novel answers that with a long, bruising sigh. Set in Hawaii in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor, it follows a group of soldiers whose lives are already exploding long before ...
From Here to Eternity
This is a novel about three women, one ordinary day each, and the way a single book—Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway—ripples through time and across lives. We move between Virginia herself in the 1920s, struggling with mental illness while beginning to...
The Hours / Mrs. Dalloway: A Novel
This is the big, sweaty American political novel that looks you in the eye and asks, “So, how do you feel about compromise?” We follow Willie Stark, who starts out as a scrappy idealist and morphs into a dangerously effective, deeply corrupt governor...
All The King's Men: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
This one drops you into a World War II POW camp in the Thai jungle, where British prisoners are forced by the Japanese army to build a railway bridge that’s crucial to the war effort. Colonel Nicholson, the hyper-principled British officer, becomes s...
The Bridge Over the River Kwai: A Novel
This is my local book club's read for March. I didn't think I would like it, but I ended up loving it. If paranoia had a patron saint, it would be this novel. We follow Raymond Shaw, the awkward, damaged son of a grotesquely ambitious political famil...
The Manchurian Candidate
This is part survival story, part spiritual fable, part “excuse me, there’s a tiger on this lifeboat,” and I loved it! After a shipwreck, teenage Pi finds himself stranded on the Pacific in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and the...
Life of Pi: A Novel
I had seen the movie, but never read this book. Wow! This is the one that made me question my life choices every time I turned off the lights. We follow Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who’s sent to interview incarcerated psychiatrist and canni...
The Silence of the Lambs